Visit the New CSTA Virtual Community

Connect with your fellow teachers and CS advocates on the new CSTA Virtual Community — available to all members now!

Teacher Landscape Report

The results are in! The Kapor Center and CSTA just published a full report and interactive dashboard featuring the results of a nationwide survey of nearly 3,700 PreK-12 computer science teachers in the U.S.

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New Standards Resources

CSTA recently published several teacher standards-aligned resources designed specifically for teachers, administrators, PD providers, schools of education, and policymakers.

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Register for CSTA 2021

Join us for the CSTA Virtual Conference, July 14–16, 2021. Registration closes on July 7!

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You're Not Alone

Become a part of a community by and for teachers and unlock access to the tools and resources to help take your teaching practice to the next level. At CSTA, we’re in this together.

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CS is Foundational

The CSTA standards outline the computer science content and practices that every student should learn over their K-12 experience.

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New: CSTA Career Center

Search for or post a job in CSTA's new career center

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2021 Summer Student Opportunity (Grades 3-8)

What is the Mars STEAM Challenge?

A Virtual Video Project using Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) for Students in Grades 3-8 to create innovative, real-world solutions to the “Your Mission” Challenge of living on the planet Mars.

2021 CSAwesome and Mobile CSP Professional Development

Mobile CSP and CSAwesome PD

2021 GenCyber Teacher Camps Professional Development

The GenCyber Teacher Camps, offered by Lehigh Carbon Community College, are week-long summer camps for grade-school teachers of K-6 (July 12-16) and 7-12 (June 21-25). The 2021 sessions will be held virtually.

The goal of the GenCyber program is to increase interest in cybersecurity careers and diversity in the cybersecurity workforce, help students understand correct and safe online behavior, and improve teaching methods for delivering cybersecurity content in K-12 curricula.

SWENext Event Announcement

Learn to Code this Summer with Girls Who Code

About Us

Computer Science is a young and rapidly changing field, challenging its practitioners and educators to remain current and be quick to adapt in order to achieve their full potential. Our group offers a forum for the exchange of curriculum ideas, sparking collaboration among and between educators in secondary schools and universities in the greater Philadelphia area, so as to help fuel continued improvement in the teaching of Computer Science. We promote Computer Science education and support K-16 educators by raising public awareness of Computer Science and its many subfields, and the value of a Computer Science education to the next generation of students.

Our membership lives or teaches in Bucks, Montgomery and Delaware counties as well as Philadelphia, PA.

Officers

President - Annie Kelly

Vice President - Tammy Pirmann

Secretary - Vacant

Treasurer - Christian Johnson

Officer Elections

Due to Annie being elected President, we are still soliciting nominations for Secretary. Please email Tammy Pirmann at tpirmann at gmail dot com

Meeting Schedule

January 23, 2021 - Virtual

February 20, 2021 - Virtual

March 20, 2021 - Virtual

April 17, 2021 - Virtual

May 15, 2021 - Virtual

June 12, 2021 - TBD

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